Hurricane Melissa tied the all-time strongest landfall on record in the Atlantic Basin as it crashed ashore in Jamaica at Category 5 intensity last week. As The Weather Channel (TWC) reports, this landfall tied the following long-standing Atlantic Basin records for most intense landfall by both pressure and wind speed: – Lowest pressure: The Labor Day 1935 […]
That coveted extra hour for millions of Americans will come in early November, as the clocks “fall back” an hour and daylight saving time comes to an end for the year. It will pick up again in March, when the clocks “spring forward” and we lose an hour. The twice-annual time change is meant to add more […]
Hurricane Melissa has just tied the all-time strongest landfall on record in the Atlantic Basin as it crashed ashore in Jamaica at Category 5 intensity. As The Weather Channel (TWC) reports, Melissa made landfall around 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday near New Hope, Jamaica, according to the National Hurricane Center. This landfall tied the following long-standing Atlantic […]
As frightful festivities ramp up leading up to Halloween, there’s trouble brewing for ghosts and goblins by way of storms in at least two portions of the United States. As AccuWeather reports, parties, parades, neighborhood masquerades and parking lot trunk-or-treat activities make up the majority of outdoor Halloween activities in the week ahead. The weather […]
As Hurricane Melissa slowly churns across the warm waters of the Western Atlantic over the upcoming days, AccuWeather reports that hurricane experts continue to sound the alarm bells that a very dangerous and deadly situation is unfolding across the Caribbean. Melissa has Already Turned Deadly in Haiti, Dominican Republic As of Saturday afternoon, at least […]
As many as a half a dozen storms are expected to roll onshore in the northwestern United States through next week, bringing periods of drenching rain to lower elevations and accumulating snow to the higher terrain. One of the more potent storms, forecast to arrive Thursday night into Friday, will tap into a firehose of […]
Winter is coming − but how cold is it going to be? Federal forecasters from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center gave us their answer October 16 in their annual winter outlook. As USA Today reports, according to the forecast, a warmer-than-average winter is most likely across the southern tier of the nation, as well as in California and along […]
The warm waters of the Caribbean Sea have been mostly untouched this hurricane season, making the region prime for tropical development. Now, as AccuWeather reports, the conditions in the Caribbean are displaying the conditions that look favorable for tropical development mid week, like lower wind shear, or disruptive winds higher up in the atmosphere. For over […]
Shooting stars are now zipping through the night sky in the Orionid meteor shower, one of the most reliable meteor showers of the year, but this year it’s joined by two recently discovered comets, Lemmon and SWAN, to make it quite a spectacular show for star gazers. As The Times reports, the peak of the […]
The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. As AccuWeather reports, humans are burning fossil fuels and ratcheting up temperatures, which is […]